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Get Google and ChatGPT traffic on autopilot.
RankYak reports 3,000+ happy users, 2.5M+ keywords researched, 60K+ articles generated, 14.5K+ backlinks built and 15M+ organic views on its success-stories page; its home page separately displays 60,000+ articles generated.
RankYak is an SEO automation platform that researches keywords, builds topical maps and monthly content plans, generates researched SEO articles, publishes them to connected CMSs, refreshes underperforming pages using Search Console data, and builds backlinks through an exchange. It also offers an in-app Copilot, a remote MCP server, API/webhooks/RSS, and free SEO tools.
Good fit for Founders, startups, local businesses, ecommerce and SaaS teams, and agencies that want a low-touch, recurring SEO content and publishing workflow across one or more sites
RankYak Pro is $99 per site/month, or $990 per site/year (two months free), with a 3-day free trial; Site Guard is an optional $99/site/month add-on.
RankYak Pro (monthly)
$99
per site per month
Keyword research, personalized growth plan, competitor analysis, topical map, monthly content plan, Search Console integration, article generation, optimization/refreshes, CMS publishing, backlinks, API/webhooks/RSS, live or draft publishing, Copilot and MCP.
30 SEO/GEO articles (one per day); article length up to 5,000 words
RankYak Pro (yearly)
$990
per site per year
The Pro feature set; annual billing gives two months free.
Same Pro allowance: 30 SEO/GEO articles (one per day); article length up to 5,000 words
Site Guard
$99
per site per month add-on
Checks existing pages against Search Console data, identifies click loss and cannibalization, and supplies fixes that can be reviewed/applied; RankYak articles can be republished in one click.
No separate usage limit stated on the official pricing page
Agency client site (monthly)
$99
per client site per month
One dashboard for clients, independent client schedules, CMS integrations, GSC integration, draft mode, and the agency workflow.
One site is priced separately; per-site article allowance is the Pro allowance
Agency client site (yearly)
$990
per client site per year
Agency client-site features with two months free on annual billing.
Same per-site allowance
Last verified September 2026 against rankyak.com/pricing. Vendors change packaging often; confirm before buying.
Scorecard
3.9/5 overall, weighted for AI SEO automation tools. How grades work.
Research is built into keyword discovery and every article; RankYak says it uses live SERP analysis and cited sources.
Keyword scoring and monthly research: https://rankyak.com/features/keyword-research ; live SERP research, up to 5,000 words and cited sources: https://rankyak.com/pricing
Strong site/niche/competitor discovery, topical maps, clusters, scoring and Search Console steering, with monthly refreshes.
https://rankyak.com/features/keyword-research
Uses the site's niche, competitors, existing pages and GSC data, but official pages do not document broad third-party app or arbitrary custom-data grounding.
https://rankyak.com/features/keyword-research ; https://rankyak.com/features/site-guard ; https://rankyak.com/features/copilot
Competitor context
Competitor rankings and live SERPs inform keyword and article research: https://rankyak.com/pricing
End-to-end researched article generation includes structure, visuals, links, metadata, brand voice, languages and refreshes.
https://rankyak.com/features/article-generation ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
Explicitly targets Google and ChatGPT/AI answers and labels its allowance SEO/GEO articles, with content designed for citations.
https://rankyak.com/ ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
GEO-oriented content generation is explicit, but no dedicated AI visibility monitoring or optimization report is documented in the reviewed official pages.
Provides free robots, redirects, broken links, metadata, schema and related tools plus Site Guard, but is not documented as a deep technical crawler.
https://rankyak.com/tools ; https://rankyak.com/features/site-guard
Calendar planning, scheduled or autopilot generation, live/draft modes and many CMS/API routes provide a complete publishing workflow.
https://rankyak.com/features/content-plan ; https://rankyak.com/integrations ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
GSC steers research and detects falling pages/articles; a broader independent rank-tracking and analytics suite is not documented.
https://rankyak.com/features/site-guard ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
A remote MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or any MCP client manage sites, while Copilot can read data and propose or perform actions with controls.
https://rankyak.com/features/mcp ; https://rankyak.com/features/copilot
Agentic workflow coverage
MCP and Copilot can manage keywords, schedules, articles and site actions: https://rankyak.com/features/mcp
$99/site/month bundles a broad workflow, includes a 3-day trial and annual two-month saving; Site Guard costs extra.
https://rankyak.com/pricing
The official tools hub advertises 24 free SEO tools spanning technical SEO, on-page, content, structured data and keyword research.
Official social-proof figures indicate meaningful adoption, but they are marketing claims and no independently verified customer count or enterprise scale is documented.
https://rankyak.com/success-stories reports 3,000+ happy users and 60K+ articles; https://rankyak.com/ reports 60,000+ articles.
Internal company data
Uses a site's pages, niche, brand voice and connected GSC data; arbitrary internal repositories are not documented: https://rankyak.com/features/copilot ; https://rankyak.com/features/site-guard
SEO data grounding
Search Console queries, clicks, positions and live SERPs ground workflows: https://rankyak.com/features/keyword-research ; https://rankyak.com/features/site-guard
Third-party app grounding
Zapier, Make and CMS integrations are documented for publishing, but broad read-grounding from third-party apps is not: https://rankyak.com/integrations
Custom API grounding
REST API/webhooks/RSS expose integration surfaces, but official pages do not establish arbitrary custom-data grounding: https://rankyak.com/integrations
https://rankyak.com/pricing ; https://rankyak.com/success-stories
Agency client sites share one dashboard and drafts support review, but team roles, comments or approval workflows beyond article review are not documented.
https://rankyak.com/for-agencies ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
Autonomous execution
Autopilot can research, fill the calendar, write and publish without manual intervention: https://rankyak.com/features/content-plan
Human control and review
Research approval, draft mode and approved edits preserve human control: https://rankyak.com/features/keyword-research ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
Integration surface
Native CMS connections plus Zapier, Make, REST API, RSS and webhooks: https://rankyak.com/integrations
Memory and persistent context
Copilot uses keywords, plan, articles and search data, and articles adapt to brand voice; persistent general memory is not documented: https://rankyak.com/features/copilot ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
Evaluation and feedback loop
GSC performance monitoring, refreshes, revision history and review cards create a feedback loop, though formal evals are not documented: https://rankyak.com/features/site-guard ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
Automatic research/approval, autopilot calendars, daily generation, auto-publishing and automatic optimization support a highly autonomous workflow while draft/review controls remain available.
https://rankyak.com/features/content-plan ; https://rankyak.com/features/keyword-research ; https://rankyak.com/pricing
https://rankyak.com/tools